JohnBlackburne added a comment.
One of the new error messages at the bottom of en:Higgs Boson as I type:
Lua error in mw.wikibase.entity.lua at line 37: data.schemaVersion must be a number, got nil instead.
For the second time the category has shrunk dramatically: yesterday there were hundreds
JohnBlackburne added a comment.
What you describe is in my experience how the category works in general. Before this issue the category (on en.wp) had far fewer articles, and I would from time to time go through them and check them. Some I could fix and they would immediately be removed from
JohnBlackburne added a comment.
Interestingly one of the examples today seems to coincide with an edit, a bot edit. The article is Bergamo and no doubt it will be promptly purged but the date and time in in the page list by date/time exactly matches the last edit by InternetArchiveBot. I think
JohnBlackburne added a comment.
I mean to Category:Pages with script errors. The link at the top of the page lists them by the date they were added. As always seems to be the case with this error no edit triggers it; it can happen to actively edited pages or to pages that have not been edited
JohnBlackburne added a comment.
And another one just (2 minutes ago) added to the category: [[Kingdom Hearts II]] Kingdom Hearts II. It’s still happening.TASK DETAILhttps://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T170039EMAIL PREFERENCEShttps://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences
JohnBlackburne added a comment.
It has always been the case that the pages can be fixed by purging – that was noted in the initial report. Purging is easy if you know to do it and how to do it, but many if not most editors, never mind readers, will not know to do so. And it is the nature
JohnBlackburne added a comment.
It’s still happening. I went through a portion of the articles in the en.wp category yesterday and found one more. And as I check again there are only two articles in the category but one has the problem (until someone purges it): Māui Pōmare.TASK DETAILhttps
JohnBlackburne added a comment.
In T170039#3441925, @ValterVB wrote:
Just to know: yesterday I emptied the category "Pages with script errors" on italian wikipedia (18:20) now, after 18 hours the category has 723 pages, and increasing continuously
I went through the en.wp category
JohnBlackburne added a comment.
It is not just one big red message. It is as many as there are uses of Wikidata on the page, sometimes showing the error message above, sometimes something else as it tries to use that as input to something, and it’s not uncommon to see two, sometimes more. Here
